Pop Punk to Pods, with David Pait

David Pait was a touring musician in pop punk band Sparks The Rescue. Now, he’s an SRE working on Kubernetes at an ad-tech company. How did he get there? And if you’re looking to change careers, how might you? Craig and Adam dig in.

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Chatter of the week

• Steam Digital Tabletop Fest
• Microsoft Surface (since renamed PixelSense)
• Similo
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News of the week

• Cloud Foundry Doubles Down on Kubernetes
  • cf-for-k8s 1.0
  • Ecosystem updates
  • Episode 105, with Chip Childers
• Akri, from Microsoft
• kube-secret-syncer from Contentful
• Grafana Tempo
• OpenTelemetry Tracing Spec RC by Morgan McLean
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
• AWS Load Balancer Controller
• Nydus container image service
• Robin.io Express, free for life
• Verizon Business adds Kubernetes which is powered by Rafay

Links from the interview

• Netsertive
• Sparks the Rescue
  • Vans Warped tour
  • David on stage
• Munki for Mac software deployment
• A considered purchase
• Google’s SRE books
• eksctl
• Velero, fka Heptio Ark
• Fixing reuse-values in Helm
• Go listen to Hot Mulligan
  • Or Taylor Swift, totally up to you
• David Pait on Twitter